Crossword clues for herself
herself
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Herself \Her*self"\, pron.
An emphasized form of the third person feminine pronoun; -- used as a subject with she; as, she herself will bear the blame; also used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, it is herself; she blames herself.
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Her own proper, true, or real character; hence, her right, or sane, mind; as, the woman was deranged, but she is now herself again; she has come to herself.
By herself, alone; apart; unaccompanied.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
pron. (context reflexive English) her; (non-gloss definition: the female object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject.)
Usage examples of "herself".
But a widow had a great deal more freedom than did a maid or a wife, and if ever I saw a woman capable of taking care of herself .
Yet she found herself being drawn to Abaddon, the most forbidden sphere.
As she settled herself beside Lauren, Abram put his hands together and looked pleased.
She grimaced at Abram and took a deep breath before pushing herself to the edge of the chair.
She seemed to accordian into herself and waver like a shimmer of heat.
Had the circumstances been happier, Ada thought, this would have been like the hair contest, a game of dress-up against which they might wager to see who could accouter herself most convincing as a man.
The arrival of Adams at Faneuil Hall was described that night in her journal by Eliza Susan Quincy, herself an artist, who was among those riding with him.
And then the issue would be joined indeed, and in a way that only the destruction of Lantlu or Adana herself could end.
That, said Tom, was addlebrained, for she would only mope herself to death at Austerby.
Priscilla - maybe because Adelaide, at nineteen, was still just a little girl herself.
Petrie drove northwards up the Atlantic Coast of New Jersey with Adelaide fast asleep beside him, and Prickles singing softly to herself in the back.
RCN considered proper commo protocol: Adele herself was very poor at that.
The toga, she discovered, had disappeared, but she was learning not to be too surprised about anything Adonis did and in any case, she was fully aroused herself.
By the time she was able to right herself, however, Adonis was disappearing in the distance.
And herself, swifter than the flash of an eye or the shafts of the sun, when it rises upwards from a far-distant land, hastened swiftly through the sea, until she reached the Aeaean beach of the Tyrrhenian mainland.